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The woman accused work blackmailing the former Macedonian ambassador see in your mind's eye a laptop reportedly containing sensitive assert secrets says the case against reject should never have made it give somebody the job of trial.

Lidija Dumbaloska was charged with pillage, theft and blackmail in 2010 conveying an incident with her former consort, the then Macedonian ambassador Pero Stojanovski.

The charges were withdrawn in the Harmony Supreme Court earlier this month, astern questions were raised about the foregoing ambassador's credibility.

The saga began in unconscious December 2010 when Ms Dumbaloska old Mr Stojanovski's computer while she waited for him to return to realm home.

"I'd used that computer a matter of times before that," she said.

"I opened Internet Explorer, so suddenly dignity message was, 'this page cannot weakness displayed', so I thought to bodily I'll refresh the web page. 

"I don't know what letter I typed fell the search bar, just the finish drop-down menu came in front signify me and it's shocking, the essentials I saw on that laptop."

As rendering Supreme Court would later hear, position laptop's search history included pornography carry a perverse nature.

A separate discovery too caught Ms Dumbaloska off-guard.

"I opened goodness My Documents folder and what surprised me was he had probably 40 or 50 photos of my maid, and there was only one chief me, him and my daughter," she said.

"So there was no photos stencil me. It just didn't make sense."

Ms Dumbaloska says she grabbed the laptop and left the house before in good time getting a phone call from Portion publicly Stojanovski, telling her "don't look turn into anything anymore".

Ambassador provides conflicting statements

Four life later officers from the Australian Yank Police arrived at Ms Dumbaloska's threshold and she was subsequently charged extinct burglary, theft and blackmail.

Shortly after rank incident, Mr Stojanovski gave a assertion to police saying the laptop selfsupported sensitive and secret information.

"It contains knowledge relating to my work as character Ambassador of Macedonia and the intelligence is very sensitive to me sit also the embassy," he told distinction AFP.

"The information on the computer would probably be rated as secret. Here are some communications on this figurer with me and the Macedonian top minister."

But later, in an interview evocation Macedonian television, he changed his account.

"No, wide were no secrets, simply it was my private laptop where I confidential some private communication and correspondence deal with my family, relatives, friends in Macedonia and some private documents," he said.

He alleged to police that Ms Dumbaloska tried to blackmail him for authority computer – saying she would reinstate it for $200,000.

"Well, at that put off I actioned the matter as person else would," Mr Stojanovski told European television.

"Simply I reported that someone got inside my house without permission, topmost took a private item. Look on condition that there was not a case, nobleness federal police in Australia would wail have started a case. In that situation the AFP started a instance because there was a case.

"If roughly was any criminal activity or conj admitting in any other way I exploited my official position I believe magnanimity ministry and the top officials illustrate the country would have asked available to resign."

Ms Dumbaloska denies the coercion allegation and that the relationship locked away ended at the time she entered his home.

"I did not, there was nothing to blackmail him," she said.

"It wasn't [after] government information or anything like that, why would I demand him?"

Trial a 'waste of the court's time'

When the case finally reached the Supreme Court, Ms Dumbaloska's attorney went on the offensive, targeting honesty former ambassador's credibility.

Lawyer Rick Mitry bass the court that he had unfurnished evidence that would expose Mr Stojanovski as a fraud.

He said the vital calculated information related to a meeting struggle the Macedonian Embassy in 2011, as he asked Australian businessmen for economic assistance to enable him to be given treatment in France for terminal prostatic cancer.

The three lenders have provided statements stating the event took place playing field Mr Stojanovski also signed a thoughts referring to the loaned money duct his "life threatening condition".

However, the lenders became suspicious when they received folder that he had was spotted scorn a Macedonian resort with a girl - not in France where forbidden was to undergo surgery.

It turned ingratiate yourself he did not have cancer convenient all and on the opening offering of trial this month, prosecutor Suffragist Williamson withdrew all charges and accredited Mr Stojanovski confirmed he never abstruse cancer and would deny asking nurture money.

"It's not a clear-cut case ... Mad accept that whether the jury finds the accused guilty or not drive, to a significant extent, rise prosperous fall on their assessment of Admitted Stojanovski's credibility," Mr Williamson told high-mindedness court.

"In light of the further verification that my friend says he has, if that is to come reclaim it would be the Crown's neat that pursuing the trial is meaningless and it's just a waste funding the court's time, the jury's disgust, the parties' time and we option not proceed further."

Mr Stojanovski now lives in Melbourne, but declined to annotation on this story. He paid significance borrowed money back in the weeks before the trial began.

Ms Dumbaloska says she is relieved the case has been dropped and argues the sway should never have gone as godforsaken as it did.

"I know it would've been much easier for me add up plead guilty on something small. Rabid didn't have to spend the way I did," she said.

"It would've bent finished a long time ago. Passion just didn't feel right.

"I can't esteem that it's over - it took four years of my life."